The Style of Sleaze: The American Exploitation Film, 1959 - 1977

What is an exploitation film? The Style of Sleaze reasons that the aesthetic and thematic approach of the key texts within three distinct exploitation demarcations - blaxploitation, horror and sexploitation - indicate a concurrent evolution of filmmaking that could be seen as an identifiable cinematic movement. Offering a fresh perspective on studies of marginal cinema, The Style of Sleaze maintains that defining exploitation cinema as a vaguely attributed 'excess' is unhelpful, and instead concludes that this period in American film history produced a number of the most transgressive, and yet morally complex, motion pictures ever made.

Author: Calum Waddell
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Published: 12/10/2019
Pages: 216
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.75lbs
Size: 9.10h x 5.90w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9781474431835

About the Author

Calum Waddell is a Lecturer in Film at the University of Aberdeen